Different Phases of the Moon

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Different Phases of the Moon
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What will we learn?

• We will learn about moon phases
• How many moons we have compared to other planets
• Why we have moon phases
• What the different moon phases look like
• How to find our birthday moon phase

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Our Planet Earth has 1 MOON!
This is our moon
This is Earth
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Other Planets have many moons!
THIS IS MARS
FOR EXAMPLE MARS HAS TWO MOONS !! EACH MOON HAS
ITS OWN NAME. THEIR NAMES ARE PHOBOS DEIMAS
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What Causes the different phases of the moon?

• The Moon Revolving around the Earth
• 2. The Moon reflecting sunlight towards the
  Earth.

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Key Vocabulary

• 1. Orbit - The path of the Moon around the Earth.
• 2. Rotate - The Earth spins around, like a top,
  about its axis once each day.
• 3. Waning appears to shrink
• 4. Waxing appears to be growing
• 5. Gibbous - Swollen on one side
• 6. Crescent less than ½ the moon is visible.
• 7. Revolve- the motion of one object around
  another ( the moon revolves around Earth)

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Different Phases of the Moon
Since we only see the lit portion of the moon
that is facing Earth, we see a Moon phase.
There are 8 phases of the moon they always
occur in the same order starting with the NEW
MOON and ending with WANING CRESCENT
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Shadow on the Moon
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New Moon
During a NEW MOON we do NOT see any of the Moons
surface that is lit. We ONLY see the dark side
of the moon. This is the first phase in the
moons cycle.
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New Moon
New Moon
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Waxing Crescent
During the Waxing Crescent moon phase we see
a small sliver of the lit moon on the right side.
A waxing moon seems to grow larger.
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Waxing CrescentWaxinCrescen
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First Quarter
During the first quarter phase, we see The
right half of the lit Moon. This means that the
Moon and Earth are now at right angles.
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First Quarter
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Waxing Gibbous
During this moon phase we see almost the entire
right side of the lit moon. The moon is still
growing!! It is swollen on one side.
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Waxing Gibbous
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Full Moon
During a full moon, we can see the entire half of
the moons lit surface. This is when the moon
is positioned behind the Earth and Sun.
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Full Moon
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Waning Gibbous
During this moon phase, we see almost the entire
Left side of the lit up moon. The moon seems to
be shrinking. It is also swollen on one side.
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Waning Gibbous
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Third (Last) Quarter
During the last quarter moon phase, we see the
left half of the Moon lit. The Moon and Earth
are now positioned again, at right angles.
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Last Quarter
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Waning Crescent
During the waning crescent moon phase, we see a
sliver of the lit Moon, now on the left side.
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Waning Crescent
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The Phases of the Moon
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The Moons Orbit
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New Moon
Light Half
Dark Half
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How the Moon looks from Earth
Part seen on Earth
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New Moon
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Waxing Crescent
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First Quarter
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Waxing Gibbous
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Full Moon
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Waning Gibbous
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Last Quarter
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Waning Crescent
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New Moon